Genesis 31:16 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 31:16

Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

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ASV

For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

KJV

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
כָל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
הָעֹ֗שֶׁר	ha.'O.sher	the wealth	H6239 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
הִצִּ֤יל	hi.Tzil	he has taken away	H5337 →
אֱלֹהִים֙	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
מֵֽאָבִ֔ינוּ	me.'a.Vi.nu	from father our	H1 →
לָ֥נוּ	La.nu	[belongs] to <the> us
ה֖וּא	hu'	it	H1931 →
וּלְבָנֵ֑ינוּ	u.le.va.Nei.nu	and to children our	H1121 →
וְעַתָּ֗ה	ve.'a.Tah	and therefore	H6258 →
כֹּל֩	kol	all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
אָמַ֧ר	'a.Mar	he has said	H559 →
אֱלֹהִ֛ים	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אֵלֶ֖יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
עֲשֵֽׂה׃	'a.Seh	do	H6213 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5337hitzilhe has taken away212×

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Psalms 45:10
Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
leads to
- Song of Solomon 2:10–13
  My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
- Genesis 12:1
  Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Matthew 10:37
  Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Matthew 19:29
  And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal…
- 2 Corinthians 6:17
  “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
Through
Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
leads to
- Genesis 31:1
  Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Proverbs 13:22
  A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Esther 8:1–2
  That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.

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